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By Saskia Hamilton b. 1967 Saskia Hamilton

I slept before a wall of books and they

calmed everything in the room, even

their contents, even me, woken

by the cold and thrill, and still

they said, like the Dutch verb for falling

silent that English has no accommodation for

in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2012).

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Poet Saskia Hamilton b. 1967

POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic

Subjects Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics

Poetic Terms Free Verse